“How much piecing’ a quilt is like livin’ a life! You can give the same kind of pieces to two persons and one will make a ‘nine-patch’ and one’ll make a ‘wild goose chase’ and there will be two quilts made out of the same kind of pieces, and jest as different as they can be. And that is jest the way with livin’. The Lord sends us the pieces, but we can cut them out and put’em together pretty much to suit ourselves and there’s a heap more in the cuttin’ out and the sewin’ than there is in the caliker (calico).”
Eliza Calvert Hall, Aunt Jane of Kentucky (Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1909)
And some of us put the blocks just next to each other, while others need fancy sashing to add spice to the quilt. Makes me think about how I want to “piece together” the rest of my life.